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Sources: Apple is working on a major Health app revamp and an AI doctor service, planned for H1 2026, and M5 updates for the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro this year — Apple is preparing its biggest health care push to date with a revamped app and AI doctor service.
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| Ernie Smith / Tedium: |
Apple's current enterprise offerings are built for single machines and have complex virtualization rules, saddling high-end users with inefficient remote setups — Whether it was trying to or not, Apple exposed a huge flaw with its pitch to professional video editors with a new Severance promotional video.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces it is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental to all Gemini users, after initially launching it for Gemini Advanced subscribers on March 25 — In a rather unexpected move, Google announced Saturday that it is rolling out the latest 2.5 Pro (experimental) model to all (free) Gemini app users.
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Forums: r/GoogleGeminiAI and r/singularity
| Bethan Staton / Financial Times: |
Many LinkedIn users put part-time job-level effort to maintain their pages; LinkedIn: 85% of FTSE 100 CEOs have a presence on the platform, up from 12% in 2023 — More users are chasing high follower counts as the professional network expands its reach — Soon after lawyer Paul Verrico posted … | Counterpoint Research: |
Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025 — - 2024 saw the global foldable market growing at a comparatively flat annual rate of 2.9%. — Samsung and OPPO's unusually weak Q4 negatively impacted broader market dynamics.| Bloomberg: |
A look at inZOI, a new life simulation game by South Korean studio Krafton that aims to appeal to players in Asia, where The Sims never gained popularity — inZOI, a new life-simulation video game, gets more realistic and more multicultural — Most people have fantasized about inhabiting someone else's life.
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| Bloomberg: |
Ethereum is struggling to keep the interest of investors and developers, having fallen out of step in an industry transformed by the embrace of Donald Trump — Vitalik Buterin was long viewed as the wunderkind of the cryptocurrency world. — The gawky, playful founder of Ethereum …
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| Manish Singh / India Dispatch: |
Bernstein: AI could erode India's $350B services export sector as AI replaces entry-level engineers at “higher precision and speed” at a fraction of the cost — AI subscriptions replace Indian engineers at “higher precision and speed” — For decades, India's economic promise …
| New York Times: |
A look at the RainbowEx crypto Ponzi scheme, which ensnared 16,000 people in San Pedro, Argentina; different versions of the scam have emerged around the world — In San Pedro, Argentina, 16,000 people, a fifth of the population, signed up for a cryptocurrency exchange where everyone won.
Forums: r/Buttcoin
| Financial Times: |
Marketing executives say big brands are allocating small amounts of their ad budget to X, seeking to avoid being perceived as boycotting Elon Musk's platform — Marketers want to avoid being seen as boycotting billionaire's social media platform — Big brands are allocating small amounts …
More: Benzinga and Howie Town
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| Bloomberg: |
How Klarna's Walmart deal ahead of its IPO put long-simmering tensions between Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Affirm CEO Max Levchin on public display — Even by Sebastian Siemiatkowski's standards, it's been a wild month. — The chief executive officer of buy now …
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| Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
A look at the new, open-source Model Context Protocol for connecting LLMs to data sources and why its success depends on overcoming middleware challenges — There's a long history of “middleware” in our industry. Everyone wants it. There's always a hot one, but it rarely makes to the finish line and often disappoints.
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